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Panelist says immigration enforcement campaign adds challenges for Hispanic businesses

SPRINGDALE -- While any business can be affected by rising operating costs or tax burdens, Hispanic business owners in Northwest Arkansas are facing added challenges related to enhanced immigration enforcement efforts, according to Geovanny Sarmiento, constituent relations manager for the city of Rogers.

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Oct 21 • 9:20 PM EDT • Business • nwaonline.com
Mad about Science: Doppelgängers and weird coincidences » Sandpoint Reader

By Brenden BobbyReader Staff History is full of weird coincidences. Enough people exist for a certain length of time and you are bound to have some expected, albeit unusual, occurrences. It’s just statistics at...

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Oct 21 • 9:13 PM EDT • Science • sandpointreader.com
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76 workers to be affected by Nashville business closure at the end of the year. Here’s what we know

AkzoNobel has filed a notice with the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development saying it will permanently close its Nashville facility effective Dec. 31, 2026.

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Oct 21 • 7:16 PM EDT • Business • wsmv.com
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Korea Toray Science Foundation Names Two Science Award Winners

The Korea Toray Science Foundation has selected Professor Kim Sang-kyu of KAIST’s Departme

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Oct 21 • 6:50 PM EDT • Science • thelec.net
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INTEGRIS Health signs agreement to join Risant Health, a nonprofit created by Kaiser Permanente

INTEGRIS Health has signed an agreement to join Risant Health, a nonprofit created by Kaiser Permanente, with no changes expected for patients or providers.

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Oct 21 • 5:27 PM EDT • Health • koco.com
Brewers Name Expected World Series Game 1 Starter

Fresh off extensive rest, Milwaukee Brewers' Jacob Misiorowski is set to take the mound in Game 1 of the World Series.

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Oct 21 • 5:12 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Cold & flu season starts in Michigan, health officials say

The Medical Director for the WUPHD says October is the best time to get a flu shot to be protected for the whole season.

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Oct 21 • 4:57 PM EDT • Health • uppermichiganssource.com
Shohei Ohtani expected to pitch next year; surgery 'not on the table'
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Oct 21 • 4:38 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trace Ford’s Giants promotion needs a pass-rush audition

Trace Ford has made three appearances, collected seven tackles and now has an active-roster contract. The next question is whether […]

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Oct 21 • 4:26 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Forge Nano to Trade on NASDAQ as NANO After Completing Business Combination with Archimedes Tech SPAC Partners II Co.

Forge Nano common stock and warrants expected to begin trading on NASDAQ on October 22, 2026 under the symbols “NANO” and “NANOW,” respectivelyPublic listing positions Forge Nano to accelerate growth across semiconductor manufacturing equipment and advanced battery technologies DENVER, Oct. 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Forge Nano, Inc., a leading U.S.-based semiconductor equipment and advanced materials company pioneering Atomic Layer Deposition (“ALD”) technology for artificial intelligence (“A

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Oct 21 • 4:15 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Minneapolis mental health crisis response program ‘thrown into chaos’

The program that sends unarmed mental health professionals to some 911 calls is in limbo after the council rejected a new vendor to do the work.

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Oct 21 • 3:30 PM EDT • Health • startribune.com
St. Bonaventure Students Spark Science Interest in Olean

Students from the St. Bonaventure University Science and Arts Departments conducted STEM related activities to residents of Olean at Lincoln Park in October.

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Oct 21 • 2:39 PM EDT • Science • tapinto.net
Danica McKellar shares how Candace Cameron Bure led her to faith: ‘It’s been Jesus this whole time’

Actress Danica McKellar reflected on how fellow former child star Candace Cameron Bure helped lead her to Christianity four years ago, and how her faith has completely redefined how she views her

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Oct 21 • 2:01 PM EDT • Entertainment • christianpost.com
Scientists discover migration-mediated mechanism enabling bacteria-virus coexistence

Bacteria and the viruses that infect them—known as phages—coexist in soils, oceans and living organisms. Scientists have long thought this coexistence reflects a microscopic version of an evolutionary ...

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Oct 21 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • phys.org
SBA to allow Iowa businessowners to share thoughts on Fed regulations

The U.S. Small Business Association‘s Office of the National Ombudsman and Office of Advocacy announced that the SBA will host two events in Iowa early next week, allowing small business owners of the state to share their thoughts on federal regulations and how they have impacted their businesses. The first event will be hosted in […]

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Oct 21 • 2:00 PM EDT • Business • corridorbusiness.com
Bush clan members back Democrat James Talarico in Texas Senate race

The Bushes could potentially influence some disaffected Republicans when it comes to next month's vote.

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Oct 21 • 1:39 PM EDT • Politics • bbc.com
Supreme Court Denies Trump Administration Request to Withhold Health Care from Incarcerated Transgender People

The Supreme Court of the United States has rejected a request from the Trump Administration and the Federal Bureau of Prisons to allow prison officials to withhold gender-affirming health care from transgender people in federal prisons.

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Oct 21 • 1:22 PM EDT • Health • acludc.org
Dodgers Free Agent Skubal Revealed He Rejected Traditional Starter Rituals

Ditching the isolation of pitchers like Los Angeles Dodgers legend Clayton Kershaw, Tarik Skubal embraced a mentally freeing pre-game routine without silent superstitions.

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Oct 21 • 1:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
I On Politics

HUNDREDS ATTEND ADDA­BBO’S AUTUMN E-WASTE EVENT: State Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. hosted his free bi-annual electronic waste recycling event on October 4, 2026, at the Forest Park Bandshell Parking Lot. The Lower East Side Ecology Center collected electronic waste including new, outdated, and broken devices. A partnership with PaintCare allowed Addabbo’s Office to

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Oct 21 • 12:26 PM EDT • Politics • qgazette.com
Preparing for cascading climate risks

Arizona communities already understand that climate hazards rarely occur in isolation. Extreme heat can drive up electricity demand, drought can increase wildfire risk, and flooding can disrupt transportation, water systems, housing and local economies. Because these systems are connected, a disruption in one can quickly threaten public health and safety.

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Oct 21 • 12:25 PM EDT • Science • news.asu.edu
AT&T's CEO throws shade at Musk's Starlink mobile ambitions

AT&T CEO John Stankey said he sees potential in satellite-based networks, but that they "cannot and will not match" fiber-connected performance.

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Oct 21 • 12:08 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Target Unwraps the Science of Gift Giving in Holiday Campaign

Created by Mythology and directed by ‘Hacks’ co-creator Lucia Aniello via hungryman, the retailer gives tenure to actor D’Arcy Carden as leader of its ‘Academy of Giftology’, a digital destination beyond its nine bilingual films

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Oct 21 • 12:08 PM EDT • Science • lbbonline.com
2026 Bowl Projections After Week Seven

Hello everyone, and welcome back to our weekly picks of who's in the playoffs and all the bowl games. This past week was circled on calendars since the schedules were revealed, with several top-25 matchups. However, it's doubtful anyone could have predicted what we saw, where five of the top seven teams in the AP …

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Oct 21 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
From PMS to Menopause: Two new clinical studies strengthen the science behind one saffron extract

PMS and menopause represent distinct stages of a woman’s life, with different hormonal patterns and symptoms. Yet both are characterised by significant hormonal fluctuations that can influence interconnected biological pathways involved in emotional well-being, sleep, stress response and overall quality of life

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Oct 21 • 11:52 AM EDT • Science • nutraceuticalbusinessreview.com
Ballot question aims to remove politics from Baltimore County inspector general selection

The county has been without an inspector general since January. It stems from the failed attempt by County Executive Kathy Klausmeier to fire the IG. Supporters of the ballot question say elected officials should not be involved in the selection.

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Oct 21 • 11:36 AM EDT • Politics • wypr.org
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Quinten Timber Reflects On Difficult Week With Crystal Palace

Quinten Timber has reflected on the two defeats to Lyon and Brighton, and has apologised to the fans for the display of the team.

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Oct 21 • 11:32 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Why an Oregon high school football player was ejected from rivalry game before kickoff

Video shows the player violently shove an opposing player who was running onto the field carrying the American flag.

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Oct 21 • 11:09 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Special Olympics Chief Health Officer Dr. Dimitri Christakis Elected into the National Academy of Medicine

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced the election of 90 regular members and 10 international members during its annual meeting on 19 October 2026. Among them was Special Olympics Chief Health Officer, Dr. Dimitri Christakis. One of the highest honors in the field, Dr. Christakis's election reflects both his work advancing health for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities at Special Olympics and his expertise in child development, particularly related to digital media and its effects on children’s social, emotional, and cognitive health.

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Oct 21 • 10:40 AM EDT • Health • specialolympics.org
Jalen Hurts' health shouldn't be up for debate

Football has long tradition of treating Black quarterbacks injuries as character referendums first and medical event second.

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Oct 21 • 10:28 AM EDT • Health • andscape.com
Get Covered Illinois offering health coverage to 9,300 residents affected by Medicaid cuts

Approximately 9,300 Illinois residents who lost Medicaid coverage due to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act can now enroll in health insurance plans through Get Covered Illinois until December 31, 2026…

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Oct 21 • 10:10 AM EDT • Health • wcia.com
Astronomers discover the lightest pair of neutron stars

Astronomers discovered PSR J1856-0039, the lightest known binary neutron star system. Its two stars orbit each other in 2.36 hours and are expected to merge in about 82 million years.

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Oct 21 • 10:07 AM EDT • Science • ua.news
Northwestern Lands Exciting Matchup in Early Bowl Projections

Northwestern is projected to face Florida in the ReliaQuest Bowl, offering an intriguing potential Big Ten vs. SEC postseason matchup as the Wildcats continue their impressive season.

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Oct 21 • 10:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The Surprising Reason Some People Keep Dating Narcissists, According to Science

A new study suggests people with narcissistic or manipulative traits may be more attracted to partners who share those same characteristics.

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Oct 21 • 9:54 AM EDT • Science • vice.com
Abbott Plans to Separate Nutrition Business Into Publicly Traded Company by End of 2027

Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) has announced plans to spin off its Nutrition division into a separate publicly traded company, with the transaction expected to be completed by the end of 2027, subject to regulatory and corporate approvals. The proposed separation would create an independent business focused on nutritional products while allowing Abbott to concentrate on its medical devices, diagnostics and established pharmaceuticals operations.

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Oct 21 • 9:47 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
What makes Troy Aikman such an appealing option for CBS?

ProShooter/Depositphotos Troy Aikman’s ESPN deal ends in 2027 Troy Kenneth Aikman works as an NFL analyst for ESPN after playing quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys. His current broadcasting agreement runs through Super Bowl LXI, scheduled for February 2027. During an October 15 radio interview in Dallas, Aikman said he expected to become a free agent.…

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Oct 21 • 9:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
iPhone Duo adding Apple Pencil support next week with iOS 27.2

Apple Pencil support on iPhone Duo is going to arrive much sooner than expected: it’s coming next week in iOS 27.2.

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Oct 21 • 9:42 AM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
Shingles vax: A cash cow? | Investors Lab

Nobody had to twist my arm to convince me to get the shingles vaccine. A few scary anecdotes about the horrors of contracting herpes zoster (pain, unsightliness and potentially permanent nerve damage, for starters) were good enough reasons for me. Turns out the two little jabs I received a few years back may offer big returns: unexpected multiyear protection for the ticker. Science News’s Meghan Rosen delivers the good news.

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Oct 21 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencenews.org
Hudson Williams says he’s writing a film but ‘getting tripped up’ over a “Heated Rivalry” parallel (exclusive)

The actor, who’s written multiple short films, talks about getting in his head about a character who’s an ex-hockey player.

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Oct 21 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Abbott plans to spin off nutrition unit that generates $8.5 billion in annual sales

The separation of the maker of Similac and Ensure is expected by the end of 2027 and will leave 2026 guidance unchanged

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Oct 21 • 8:50 AM EDT • Business • qz.com
Bayern Munich predicted lineup vs. Arsenal: Projected XI, team news
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Oct 21 • 8:41 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Hoffenheim vs. Lyon preview: Team news & predicted lineups

After a much-needed 2-1 win over fellow Bundesliga strugglers Borussia Mönchengladbach ended their four-game losing streak at the weekend, TSG Hoffenheim will be looking to build on that result when ...

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Oct 21 • 8:38 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
132 at UNC-Chapel Hill inducted into Phi Beta Kappa

Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most honored college honorary society, has inducted 132 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students as new members. The recent induction ceremony... View Article

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Oct 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • uncnews.unc.edu
Too much RNA can starve cells of energy, scientists discover

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected danger lurking inside cells: too much RNA can damage the structures responsible for producing energy. A new study found that excess RNA, including the normally essential messenger RNA (mRNA), can directly disrupt mitochondria without relying on the immune system. The discovery could help explain how viral infections and certain aging-related diseases damage cells.

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Oct 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Pellegrini expected to remain out for several weeks

Roma enjoyed a 4-0 victory over Slovan Bratislava, which earned the Giallorossi their first win in this season’s Champions League. Gian Piero Gasperini’s team delivered a convincing performance, b...

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Oct 21 • 6:38 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Cruz Foam had a promising idea. Why couldn’t it make its sustainable packaging business work?

Cruz Foam's biodegradable packing material made from shrimp shells and food waste attracted wide attention and big-name investors, but the Santa Cruz-based company has closed up shop after what one former exec says were struggles to solve the full range of problems its customers needed packaging to address.

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Oct 21 • 6:31 AM EDT • Business • lookout.co
From Trauma to Hope: Supporting Mental Health in Ukraine

As the war in Ukraine continues, access to mental health care remains critical for people living with the psychological effects of the conflict, including the healthcare workers serving affected co…

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Oct 21 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • directrelief.org
Husband-and-wife investors renovate Indian Village home with families in mind

April and James Mulroy aimed to create a high-end product that retained the home’s historical character and one that was particularly appealing to families.

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Oct 21 • 5:46 AM EDT • Business • crainsdetroit.com
For an Experiment in Political Affirmative Action, Look to Taiwan

The island adopted quotas for women running for public office decades before other countries. The upshot? Today, few of them need quotas to get elected.

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Oct 21 • 5:01 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
2026 Health Care Congressional Voter Guide

At NC Health News, we care about you and your family’s health and we think our elected officials should too. We started in September to reach out to all of North Carolina’s Congressional candidates asking them to answer a series of questions about health care issues that you care about: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, […]

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Oct 21 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • northcarolinahealthnews.org
Mental health support available for families, community members in Bend after mass shooting

Mental health support services are being offered in Bend to help those impacted by the Silver Rail Elementary School shooting.

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Oct 21 • 1:50 AM EDT • Health • kptv.com
A Bizarre Plastic-Eating Enzyme Has a Second Talent That Worries Scientists

Plastic can fool nature’s cleanup crew, but one bacterial enzyme knows exactly where to bite.

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Oct 21 • 1:34 AM EDT • Science • zmescience.com
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A 1960 Science Paper Set Doomsday for Friday, Nov. 13, 2026, and Its Population Math Held Up for Three Decades

A 1960 Science paper predicted doomsday on Nov. 13, 2026. There is no threat, but its population equation beat most forecasts until about 1993.

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Yankees Predicted to Steal ‘Outstanding’ World Series Pitcher This Offseason

The New York Yankees could target World Series pitcher JoJo Romero in the coming offseason, an MLB insider suggests. The post Yankees Predicted to Steal ‘Outstanding’ World Series Pitcher This Offseason appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 20 • 11:02 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Popular supplement combinations may carry unexpected risks, health expert warns

Clinical pharmacist Jim LaValle discusses why taking excessive amounts of vitamins and minerals can pose health risks, and how identifying nutritional deficiencies can help guide safer supplementation.

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Oct 20 • 9:22 PM EDT • Health • foxnews.com
Lombardo check rejected as evidence during Fiore hearing

A Nevada judicial discipline panel rejected Gov. Joe Lombardo’s $5,000 check as evidence in proceedings against suspended Pahrump Justice of the Peace Michele Fiore.

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Oct 20 • 9:12 PM EDT • Politics • reviewjournal.com
Rare solar radiation storm gives scientists clearest picture yet of flight risks

The most comprehensive data set ever collected from Earth's atmosphere during a solar radiation event has highlighted the importance of better-coordinated radiation monitoring for aviation safety, according ...

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Oct 20 • 9:00 PM EDT • Science • phys.org
Insider Reveals Michigan’s Starting QB vs. Indiana

Michigan is reportedly expected to start Tommy Carr over Bryce Underwood against Indiana after the freshman sparked a comeback win over Penn State.

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Oct 20 • 8:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Political newcomers De La Cruz and Garcia battle for redrawn Texas 35th Congressional District

On Nov. 3, Texas voters will choose a new U.S. representative for the newly redrawn 35th Congressional District. On the ballot are Republican Carlos De La Cruz and Democrat Johnny Garcia.

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Oct 20 • 8:31 PM EDT • Politics • ksat.com
Florida health department issues water quality advisory for Palm Beach County parks

The Florida Department of Health in Palm Beach County has issued a water quality advisory for several parks due to high levels of Enterococcus bacteria found in recent water tests.

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Oct 20 • 7:48 PM EDT • Health • wpbf.com
New Richland Lab Could Transform How Scientists Study Microbes and Boost Regional Jobs

The BriefGroundbreaking held Tuesday: PNNL officially began construction on the M2PC lab, a 30,800-square-foot facility funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science that will study soil microbes to improve crop productivity and develop new biotechnology applications. The facility will be open to researchers from around the nation and the world.Research timelines could shrink dramatically: The facility's automation and AI capabilities could reduce experiments that currently take six months to just 72 hours, allowing scientists to explore more possibilities faster than ever before.New jobs coming to the Tri-Cities: The project is expected to create positions for automation engineers, AI experts, roboticists, technicians, and skilled craftspeople, with the facility opening in 2029.RICHLAND, Wash. — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory broke ground Tuesday on a first-of-its-kind facility that could accelerate scientific discoveries about the microscopic organisms living in soil—organisms that may hold the key to growing more food and developing new energy technologies.The Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability, or M2PC, represents a significant investment in automation and artificial intelligence to speed up research that traditionally takes years to complete. The 30,800-square-foot facility will house more than 100 connected automated instruments designed to study microbes at a pace and scale never before possible.Reshaping Agriculture's FutureThe M2PC facility will not put a new tool directly into a farmer's hands tomorrow morning, but it is actively reshaping the commercial pipeline to solve agriculture's biggest headache with biologicals: inconsistent field performance. For years, PNNL researchers have explored how microbes work and how they might help produce useful materials, advance energy technologies, and address challenges involving critical materials and minerals. But those experiments have been limited by what researchers could accomplish by hand."They can be used to provide nutrients to a plant so that the plant would grow more. So, like increasing your crop productivity, for example," said Douglas Mans, PNNL's Associate Laboratory Director for Integrated Discovery Sciences.PNNL's own research shows soil microbes can help plants access nutrients and withstand drought—benefits that could prove crucial as farmers face growing environmental pressures. The M2PC facility will allow scientists to identify and optimize useful microbes faster than ever before, accelerating the development of biological solutions that actually work consistently in the field.What Makes M2PC UniqueThe Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability differs from traditional research labs because it operates as a first-of-its-kind, AI-enabled autonomous laboratory designed to shrink experimental timelines from years down to months or weeks. The M2PC lab will connect more than 100 automated instruments to grow microbes, prepare samples, measure their behavior, and link observations to the molecular processes behind them. Artificial intelligence will help analyze results and guide the next experiments, allowing scientists to explore more questions faster.Deb Gracio, PNNL Director, emphasized the transformative potential during Tuesday's groundbreaking ceremony: "Research that has taken years will become possible in months and hopefully in weeks."That acceleration is already being demonstrated. PNNL's smaller automated lab, called the Anaerobic Microbial Phenotyping Platform or AMP2, completed three experimental cycles in just 72 hours—a process that normally would have taken about six months."That normally would have taken us about six months … and we were able to do that in 72 hours," Mans said.The AMP2 laboratory is not being closed or replaced. Instead, the current 1,800-square-foot laboratory serves as an active prototype and precursor for the much larger M2PC facility. AMP2 will continue operating as a separate lab designed to run anaerobic experiments—those conducted in the absence of oxygen—while M2PC will focus on aerobic research.Broader Applications Beyond AgricultureWhile improving crop productivity is one important application, the M2PC facility is designed to support research into multiple areas critical to national priorities. The lab will advance research into biofuels, manufacturing materials, and energy technologies. It will also help researchers understand how microbes respond to environmental changes and how to design biological systems for biotechnology applications.As a flagship component of the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, M2PC represents a significant investment in using artificial intelligence and automation to accelerate U.S. scientific discovery. Dorothy Koch, Associate Director of the DOE Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research program, highlighted the facility's importance during the groundbreaking."M2PC will accelerate biological discovery and design," Koch said, noting that the facility is expected to conduct a minimum of 500 strain experiments per week, 100 microbiome experiments per week, and take a million measurements per month.Economic Opportunity for the RegionBeyond the scientific breakthroughs, the M2PC project represents significant economic opportunity for the Tri-Cities region. The facility will require hiring automation engineers, AI experts, technicians skilled in operating robotics, and specialized craftspeople to build and maintain the sophisticated equipment."We're anticipating that type of hiring," Mans said when asked about job creation.PNNL has already begun recruiting talent nationally and internationally for positions related to the smaller AMP2 lab, bringing automation engineers from cities like Boston and San Francisco to work in the region. The M2PC facility is expected to accelerate that trend."This capability won't really exist anywhere else in the world," Mans said, suggesting the facility could become a draw for scientific talent seeking to work on cutting-edge biotechnology research.Timeline and Next StepsThe M2PC facility is expected to open in 2029. Between now and then, construction crews will level and prepare the ground, while the building takes shape. Simultaneously, Ginkgo Bio Works, the automation contractor, will build the facility's automation components off-site so they can be installed as the building is completed.In the interim, PNNL researchers and the broader scientific community will begin planning the first experiments to be conducted in the facility, ensuring research is lined up and ready to begin as soon as the doors open.The groundbreaking ceremony included representatives from the Department of Energy, PNNL leadership, and elected officials at the federal, state, and local levels, underscoring the project's significance to the region and the nation's biotechnology future. News The U.S. Department of Energy Secretary tours Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Dan Hanson, Apple Valley News Now News Beyond DNA: Scientists Explore New Frontiers in Biology Research Dan Hanson, Apple Valley News Now News TRIDEC optimistic that Hanford, PNNL will see funding in national budget Robert Desaulniers News Big picture science: monitoring the Yakima River Basin News PNNL research could shape the future of fighting fentanyl ​COPYRIGHT 2026 BY APPLE VALLEY NEWS NOW. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.

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Oct 20 • 7:44 PM EDT • Science • applevalleynewsnow.com
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Google.org awards $36m to 17 AI science teams | ETIH EdTech News

ETIH edtech news covers Google.org's $36 million commitment to 17 AI for Science projects, including research at the University of Cambridge and MIT. The selected organizations will advance work across climate, clean energy and healthcare, with optional access to Google's six-month accelerator.

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Oct 20 • 7:01 PM EDT • Science • edtechinnovationhub.com
A Woman’s Journey to Lifelong Bone Health

When should women really start worrying about bone density? If you think the answer is 65, you might want to reconsider. A Hackensack Meridian Health expert weighs in.

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Oct 20 • 6:30 PM EDT • Health • newswise.com
Vikings Face Criticism Over J.J. McCarthy From Unexpected Voice

Barstool Sports owner and Michigan alum Dave Portnoy went to bat for former Minnesota Vikings and current New York Giants quarterback J.J. McCarthy. Portnoy spoke out about McCarthy’s time at the Vikings, as the latter made his debut with the Giants. McCarthy stepped in for Jameis Winston in the Giants’ game against the New Orleans […] The post Vikings Face Criticism Over J.J. McCarthy From Unexpected Voice appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 20 • 6:27 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Orange County Public Schools rejects health insurance proposal

For the time being, Orange County school leaders have rejected a plan to end a dispute over teachers' health insurance.

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Oct 20 • 6:23 PM EDT • Health • wesh.com
From Our Partners: The Hidden Devices Putting Your Small Business at Risk

During Small Business Month 2026 alone, Comcast Business detected and blocked 230 cyber threats targeting small businesses per second. That finding carries added weight across the Eastside.

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Oct 20 • 6:08 PM EDT • Business • 425business.com
Penn State expected to miss Bowl Games by multiple outlets

Penn State was nearly a consensus College Football Playoff pick earlier this year, and now they are expected to miss out on Bowl Games.

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Oct 20 • 6:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Cam Heyward Once Again Elected to Esteemed Post for Steelers

The Pittsburgh Steelers have elected Cam Heyward as their NFL Players Association player representative, per source. Outside linebacker Alex Highsmith, […]

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Oct 20 • 5:29 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ohio governor’s race in uproar over video featuring Democrat’s estranged mother

Amy Acton was removed from her mother’s home when she was 12 after her stepfather was indicted on a charge of raping her.

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Oct 20 • 5:28 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
OCPS rejects compromise on teacher health insurance ahead of school board hearing

Orange County Public Schools rejected on Tuesday a compromise on health insurance costs meant to break a months-long contract dispute between the district and its teachers union, saying that a special...

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Oct 20 • 5:22 PM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
SpaceX turns a profit after a string of losses as its satellite and computer leasing businesses soar

SpaceX reported a bigger quarterly profit than expected Tuesday as its satellite communications operations and its business of leasing computing power to other companies boomed.

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Oct 20 • 4:49 PM EDT • Business • clickondetroit.com
SpaceX's AI business is beating expectations

SpaceX's data centers and Grok agents have been more profitable than investors expected in second quarter of the year, as the company leaves its roots as

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NC State’s Agroecology Education Farm: Where Agriculture, Ecology and People Connect

Walking through rows of leafy greens, ripe, red tomatoes or rich-smelling rosemary at the Agroecology Education Farm, it’s easy to feel more connected to where your food comes from. And with a mission rooted in community outreach, that's the point.

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Oct 20 • 4:08 PM EDT • Science • cals.ncsu.edu
Apple's Touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro: Everything We Know

Apple is working on a high-end MacBook Pro, and it's nearly ready to launch. It will have several firsts in a Mac, including an OLED display and a touchscreen. Design Apple hasn't redesigned the MacBook Pro since the launch of the M1 Pro and M1 Max models in 2021, so it's due for a new look. The new MacBook Pro is expected to feature some minor design changes.

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iPad Mini 8 Expected Next Week With These 10 New Features

Apple reportedly plans to unveil an iPad mini 8 with an OLED display next week, with those invited to Apple's Los Angeles experience on Wednesday, October 28 expected to receive hands-on time with the device, alongside MacBook Pro models with touch-enabled OLED displays, a 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M6 chip, and an iMac with an M6 chip.

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An Unexpected Iran War Opponent: The President’s Son

In private conversations, including with his father, Donald Trump Jr. has raised concerns.

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The Metro: Donavan McKinney hopes to inject more humanity in politics

Democratic party member and progressive Donavan McKinney sits down with The Metro to discuss what he'll deliver if elected to the House.

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Medical emergency uncovers unexpected diagnosis, saves life

Caroliena McCoy's medical emergency led to the discovery of blood clots in her lungs and legs. Then the ECU Health team stepped in.

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Oct 20 • 2:42 PM EDT • Health • ecuhealth.org
Philadelphia Phillies Trade Prediction Lands 2X All-Star Outfielder

The Philadelphia Phillies are expected to be active on MLB’s trade market this offseason after a disappointing-ish end to the 2026 campaign. There has been a lot of speculation about who could be moved from the Phillies’ roster, but Dave Dombrowski will be thinking about making additions to the roster as well, and a solid […] The post Philadelphia Phillies Trade Prediction Lands 2X All-Star Outfielder appeared first on HEAVY.

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The U.S. has never elected a Black Republican governor. Can Florida?

By many measures, Florida seems like an ideal place for Rep. Byron Donalds to make history as the first Black Republican ever elected governor.

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Oct 20 • 2:15 PM EDT • Politics • wlrn.org
Tonko, Ambrosio make their cases in 20th Congressional District race

Voters in the 20th Congressional District will choose between a longtime Democratic incumbent and a Republican who has never held elected office.

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Tonko, Ambrosio make their cases in 20th Congressional District race

Voters in the 20th Congressional District will choose between a longtime Democratic incumbent and a Republican who has never held elected office.

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Sundar Pichai: Google’s Frontier Imperative, Compute Scarcity Dilemmas, Future AI Products and Businesses

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has little patience for doubts about Google’s willingness or capacity to compete at the frontier of AI. His company’s latest Gemini 4 Argon model — long-promised and recently delivered — beats OpenAI and Anthropic’s latest public models on coding, math, science, and knowledge-work benchmarks and has placed Google’s AI back among the world’s best. Amid chatter that Google was fine with good-enough lightweight ‘Flash’ models, Pichai pushed back hard against any suggestion that company is limiting its research ambitions. “We won’t do it any other way,” he told me in a Big Technology Podcast interview recorded this week at Google’s Mountain View headquarters. Pursuing cutting-edge research is costly for Google, requiring compute and chips that otherwise could be sold at a high markup by its cloud business. But Pichai said allocating resources to frontier AI development is “ground zero” for Google. “Our cloud business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development,” Pichai told me. In our conversation, we discussed Argon (which Pichai says processed three times as many tokens as Gemini 3 in the 72 hours after launch), AI’s role in developing better models, the AI interface of the future, competition with OpenAI, Google’s partnerships with Anthropic and Apple, data centers in space, and the nature of his optimism. You can read the full conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity, below, or listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice. Alex Kantrowitz: Google is back at the frontier with Gemini 4 Argon, which beats OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s public models on benchmarks spanning coding, math, science, and knowledge work. The conventional wisdom was that Google had given up on the frontier to focus on fast, good-enough models for its products. That was wrong? Sundar Pichai: Very wrong. Look, we are so committed to being at the frontier. It’s in our DNA. We won’t do it any other way. We’ve been thinking about the AI frontier for well over a decade now. The frontier is very dynamic. It’s very competitive. It’s very exciting. I couldn’t be more pleased with how Argon has come together. We took our time with it. We made sure we tested it safely and deployed it carefully. We took a bit longer than our other models, given its capabilities. Across the board, be it for agentic work, knowledge work, coding, creative tasks, Argon is one of the really good frontier models. The first 72 hours since we launched, it’s almost up to 25 trillion tokens used, which is about three times what Gemini 3.0 had in the first 72 hours. And we are capacity constrained as we are serving it. Excited, but there are always areas….. You know, the frontier is very dynamic, and you have to keep evolving the models. There are areas which we can see we need to improve as well. We’ll be at work on all of that as well. Which areas? On any given model, Argon would be across the board better at everything if you just look even two months back. But the space is so evolving. Even on coding, for example, there are pockets where we know we need to do better, and there’s clear feedback. We’ll make it better. The argument for standard models is that they’re already good enough to build great products, with the frontier valuable only for certain tasks. Meta built Muse with good models rather than the best, and Google could put standard models into Maps, Gmail, and Search. Why isn’t that sufficient? It’s definitely not how I have thought about it at all. We are deeply committed to driving the state of the art and actually pushing where this technology can go, all the way from transformers. That’s a journey we’ve been on. You will see us continue to do that. When you’re at the frontier, you get an earlier look into the emerging capabilities, earlier than others, which helps you better prepare for the future. We are fortunate to have a wide set of opportunities across consumer and enterprise. Some of our cloud customers, for sure, want the model at the frontier. The frontier models will be better at developing the next set of models in an era of recursive self-improvement. I would argue it matters there. Internally, we have definitely seen a steep point of inflection by deploying Argon to our developers. It definitely tackles problems which our previous models could not do. Being at the frontier puts you at the innovation frontier and helps you drive that as well. There is room for models of all sizes and capabilities. That’s why we did Flash, Flash-Lite, etc. I agree with you that you can develop very good product experiences with not necessarily the most frontier model, because they tend to be slower and more expensive too. But we care about the Pareto frontier, and we’re committed to doing all of that. You said developing frontier models gives you a look at what’s coming. What do you see on the horizon? What makes this moment so exciting is you build something which you think is a culmination of months of work, and you put it out. You already see clear headroom ahead. We’ve all been working on these agentic, long-horizon capabilities, but clearly the frontier is going to have multiple of these agents working together to do things. That’s an example of an exciting paradigm underway. It’s also clear to me that users, both in consumer and enterprise, will have access to some multi-agent framework for them, working all the time doing things. It feels like a moment of infinite possibilities. Sergey Brin said one of Argon’s core innovations was relying more on the model to help develop the model. Yet incidents involving OpenAI’s bots breaking containment and Google’s bots accessing a site they shouldn’t have suggest these systems still aren’t perfectly aligned. Isn’t there reasonable cause for concern about accelerating toward recursive self-improvement? There are three parts to your question. Let’s first talk about RSI itself. You’re right, Sergey mentioned RSI being a critical contributor as we are developing Argon. But to be very clear, today, in a continuum, we are pretty far from the end state of RSI or something like that. The right way to describe it is you have RSI loops along with AI researchers in various aspects of model development. You almost have agents helping AI researchers in some automated way work together to build these models. It’s good to at least understand where we are today, and it’s super exciting. I expect that continuum to keep making progress as we go into next year. The second question is around safety. Security comes from defense in depth. You’re talking about alignment, obviously. We all are doing a lot of work to make sure the models are as aligned as possible. But it’s an active area of research, and there are clear gaps. That’s not the only thing we rely on. You have the work you do on alignment, but beyond that, we put a lot of effort into real-time monitoring as these models are working. Making sure you have good telemetry into what’s happening so that you can intervene in real time if you see unexpected behaviors. How you do that, the architecture with which you do that, how you make sure it’s all sandboxed and isolated in a way that it can continue doing its job during real-time monitoring — these are all areas of investment. Obviously, when we deploy these models, giving customers, enterprises, control, both with real-time monitoring, but their ability to decide where they deploy, what type of data which models ever have access to, etc. All that work is very, very important, and we are doing a lot of that. As an industry, we need to constantly up our game and take the time to do all this stuff, including dedicating the compute required to make sure you can safely deploy these models. The third part is: Is it all enough? This is why there are a lot of conversations in the industry, and I think it’s reasonable to be worried. The right way to approach something you worry about is early on thinking about what more we can do. As an industry, you’re definitely seeing increased levels of work on alignment, testing for safety, etc., as we deploy these models. The next step would be developing better standards so there are cross-industry standards of how we do these things, including the ability to evaluate using independent evaluators. If you look at areas like financial controls, we have accounting standards, we have independent auditors. Those are all the next natural steps for us as an industry to work toward, and regulation will end up playing a role as we go through all of that as well. Google pursues both language models and world models, while some other AI companies like OpenAI have focused more heavily on LLMs as the path to AGI. Why is world-model research important to you? As humans, you obviously perceive the world around you, and you’re taking all those inputs. Making sure these models are able to understand the laws of physics, simulate the world in high fidelity. All that, I think, are key enabling blocks for intelligence. We are working across all possible applications of this. Take an area like robotics. It’s not an accident: If you look at embodied reasoning benchmarks, Argon is state of the art. That all comes from our experience building world models. Inherently, I would expect there will be architectures which will converge all of this in the future. But for us, we view this as, today, this jagged frontier that is intelligence. We want to be at the frontier of all the possible approaches, and that will help us both drive better research, better insights, and develop a much better AGI model, is how we think about it. Some people argue Google should focus on selling its computing resources rather than using them for AI research. Cloud wants to sell compute at a high markup, while researchers need a very big computer to build the best models. How do you balance those demands? Ground zero for us is making sure we are investing in the compute that’s needed to be at the AI frontier. In 2015, I set the company to be AI-first. AI is that key horizontal ingredient across everything we do, all the way from Search to Cloud to Waymo. That is ground zero for us, making sure both for research and developing the models that we have enough compute needed. Beyond that, we have these independent businesses which each have their own long-range plans. They’re using those long-range plans to project forward, and we plan for compute for all of them. The cloud team, they have a business and they have a projection and they have demand signals. They have committed contracts. With that help, we can plan on a long-term compute trajectory for them. We’re fortunate to have this wide set of opportunities. There’s no company in the world which isn’t making trade-offs at any given moment in time. But the first principles we operate on is making sure we have enough compute to invest in the frontier, and that’s non-negotiable, and everything else works on top. Remember, we are building our own compute, our own data centers. There are long lead times. The compute we have today is a function of decisions I made in 2024. Even if you think back to a year from today, last year the agentic coding takeoff hadn’t happened. Today, obviously, when you sit and look at anything, everyone is short—not just us, other companies—and everyone wishes you had two times what you had planned for. That comes with the territory. At any given moment in time, we are planning for what we would need two to three years out in the future. You’re going to find some decisions you make may look suboptimal two years out, depending on where the state of the art is. I don’t spend too much time thinking about it. The way I think about compute allocation is making sure Google DeepMind, both for research and frontier model development, is cutting edge in terms of compute access. After that, we plan for all our businesses. It’s great we can provide our compute to other people too, like we have done. It allows us to scale that up, get real tests for it in the widest application set possible, test it in the real world, and make sure we are at the cutting edge of technology at every layer of our AI stack as well. Ben Horowitz relayed on a podcast that Andy Jassy had said compute was sold out until 2028. Are you seeing the same thing? If today a customer is coming out and asking us for compute in ’27, that is incredibly difficult to do. Even last year we went out and leased some short-term compute to accommodate some customers and help them out. But yes, we are all dealing with similar timelines. Every major technology shift seems to involve overbuilding, from railroads to fiber. Do you think that’s happening here? It depends on the time frames you’re looking at. This level of build, if I take a long enough time frame, it makes complete sense to me. We are at early stages of the most consequential technology ever, and this is not like fiber. It’s not dark. We are using it. We are capacity constrained on a daily basis. The applications, the underlying technology is improving rapidly. But running a company, the way I work through the moment is you look at your demand signals. You look at your committed revenue opportunities that you’re getting in the form of contracts. You balance that with the underlying technical capability, or internally you balance how we are using it internally, the model trajectories. Based on all that, you take a disciplined approach—a confident, aggressive, but disciplined approach—to plan out compute. But when you talk about the broader economy as a whole, you’re having people operate with various levels of risk. I focus on what I can control as a company and plan through it. If your question is, can there be an overbuild? Yes, because you can have some constrained components. Remember, what matters is a set of everything you need to build out that compute. Memory, electricity, electricians…. Land. Like 2,000 components or more. You could get constrained at some point. There could be things which cause bottlenecks, and then you could have overbuilds. There could be external shocks to the economy. There are macro risks. All that is possible at any given time. But am I confident that the compute we are planning for, we will have uses for it given enough time? Absolutely, yes. I was in the room when you said AI would be as profound as fire and electricity. If you believe that, shouldn’t you give researchers the biggest possible computer, even at the expense of today’s cloud profits? We’re all doing some form of that. Our cloud business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development. What you’re seeing is true already. But you want to be thoughtful. Even our AI researchers have some constraints, which are also good. That’s what inspires creativity. That’s what helps you come up with a more efficient algorithmic breakthrough, maybe to use less memory. What we are committed to is to invest what’s needed to stay at the frontier. OpenAI President Greg Brockman told me a few months ago that the ideal AI product might have no interface at all—just as natural as conversation. What do you think the interface looks like in the age of AI? Computing historically has been humans adapting to computing. With AI, it’ll be the other way around. The technology will adapt seamlessly to how humans live and go about their day-to-day life. You want to be able to speak to that AI when you want to. It has context. It can be persistently running somewhere, give you continuity. You’re not dealing with a lot of complexity. It’s natural. All that makes sense to me. That doesn’t mean it won’t have any interface, however. Nowadays, even on my phone, Gemini voice models are so good. I can just press the microphone button. I can just ramble. That’s why we call it Rambler. I can ramble. It intelligently corrects with my personal context. Even my friends’ names, weird names, it gets it right, even if it first guesses it wrong. It’s amazing. I’m not going in, backspacing, editing once I finish saying it. It’s remarkable how good it’s gotten. But there are going to be moments you will need an interface. You may want to entertain yourself. You may want to watch a video. You may ask your AI to create something, and you want to watch it, consume it. The way I think about it is, you want it to be as seamless and as natural as possible, and that you are not doing the hard work adapting to whatever the interface is. The technology is adapting to how you’re working at any given moment in time. When I asked Sam Altman about competition from Google, he argued that OpenAI was building AI-native products and implied Google was bolting AI onto existing ones. Do you accept that framing, and can a “bolt-on” compete with an AI-native product? First of all, it’s a very dynamic moment. We are all pushing each other. OpenAI has pushed us as a company too. This is not just we are doing something to them. Far from it. Yes, Google went into its own version of a code red too. In the AI moment, all of us have to respond with varying levels of urgency at any given moment in time. We are constantly building new products as well. Gemini was built from the ground up as a product—the Gemini app I’m talking about. Or tomorrow, as all of us are adapting to agents, are you bolting agents onto ChatGPT, or are they building it natively? How would you think about that? You can always put these questions back. I don’t think of it that way. I think of it as you want to build world-class product experiences that are AI-native and they are winning. Some of it is adapting products, some of it is rethinking new experiences. They will all be part of how you approach this moment. How do you expect to make money from these AI interfaces? If an agent recommends a product and I buy it, should it take a cut of the sale, even if that’s disclosed? I’m going to put enterprise aside. Consumers are going to increasingly value this technology. Take software developers today. Developers are willing to pay for these coding models because it really helps make them more productive. Nobody would want to code the way they were coding three years ago, or even the same time last year. When you’re delivering value, there’s value to be had. I’ve never seen examples where consumer products really scale to billions of users, where people are using it intensely, and haven’t had monetization to go along with it. If you’re providing value to people, there is inherent value to be had. The nature of it may change. You’re asking a scenario in which agents are doing stuff for you. At the end of the day, you will have commercial needs. The agents need to fulfill those commercial needs. The providers on the other side are going to see value in that. There’s going to be some mechanism by which it gets fleshed out. That’s what an efficient system does. But what matters is that you’re building those world-class consumer experiences. I promised myself one product feature request: Can you make Gemini-powered search in Gmail as good as searching Gmail through ChatGPT? What’s going on here? One of the exciting things we announced recently is the unified Gemini agent for enterprise, and we’re bringing that to consumers. These are persistent agents which run 24/7 in the cloud. We’re spinning up a micro VM effectively for every query, and from the runtime, the harness, the model—it’s all a headless service. It’ll work everywhere, and it has your context with you. You can address this agent whether you’re in Workspace, in Search, in Gemini. Agents are going to drive this unification from a customer experience, which people are looking for. When you have a broad product portfolio and you’re moving forward fast, there are always areas where you’re moving forward faster than some other areas. That’s valid feedback. But we are putting a lot of time and effort into making sure, as we build out our agentic experience, that unification and that capability works well across all these services. People have asked where Google’s equivalent of Muse or Dots is. Do you anticipate creating a new product to compete with them? Our goal with Gemini is to be a personal, proactive, and powerful assistant. That’s what we are working toward. You saw us describe the early versions of it at Google I/O this year with Spark. Effectively, already, if you open the Gemini app as a Pro or an Ultra user, you see Chat and Task, and they start giving you that agentic experience. With Argon now, that capability is dramatically accelerated. What we announced recently in our enterprise event, we are bringing that to consumers as well. Soon in Gemini, you will be able to ask something, and it’s a continuum. You don’t need to think about whether you’re asking a chat or an agentic task. It’ll just automatically do the right thing, and it can work persistently in the background securely and get things done for you. Already, empirically, when I look at what’s coming into Gemini in our app, last year you would have tagged them and most of them would have been chats. But a steadily growing percentage is already agentic tasks in Gemini. Yes, we are going to bring personal agents to our consumers. It’ll work in the Gemini app. It’ll work in Google Search. It’ll work in Gmail. You can address it, call it, etc. We want to make sure we’re getting it right. It’ll be powered by Argon, and we are very excited to bring it to our users. Google has invested and committed tens of billions of dollars to Anthropic. What do you see in Dario Amodei that makes you want such a deep investment and partnership? Very early on, when we looked at the founding team of Anthropic, it was very clear to us this was a world-class team which was involved in some of the earliest GPT models. We were quickly able to assess that they would be at the frontier. We’ve always tried to identify and partner with companies which would be at the cutting edge of technology. We’ve done that with SpaceX. We’ve done that with Anthropic. That’s what we saw, and we had a chance to partner. Is your partnership with Apple to license Gemini for Siri expanding, contracting, or standing still? For both us and Apple, that partnership was about translating the capabilities of AI into better experiences for users. I thought Apple has done a phenomenal job of incorporating—they customize these models and build it into Siri—and it’s been great to see the reception. We are committed to doing more. You’re going to do more with them? There’s nothing specific to comment, but it’s a partnership. It’s working well. What have you learned so far about the feasibility of data centers in space? It’s a very exciting project. Projects like this remind me—I still recall that moment in the desert for the DARPA Grand Challenge, watching the Stanley car compete in it, which ended up being the basis for Waymo. With all these technologies, you’re at a moment in time where it looks a bit like sci-fi, but 10 to 20 years down the line, it’s actually working in a meaningful way. I feel the same in space. We’ve always believed in betting big on these technologies. Quantum has been a great example of it. We’re probably 10 years into the journey. Waymo, we are almost 20 years into the journey. Space, we are two to three years into the journey. It’s clear to me that it’s an approach which will make a lot of sense in the future. Being in sub-synchronous orbits with 24/7 access to the most abundant form of energy we have access to will make a lot of sense for this exponential increase in compute that we are going to need. Having said that, this is a challenging project. The team has disciplined milestones. It was a super exciting milestone to send the TPUs up to space. Sometime, as we are speaking, we are expecting a “hello world” moment from them. I look forward to seeing that happen, and we’ll continue investing here too. You previously said 25% of the code written within Google was written by AI. What’s the number today? That number in our world today is meaningless in the sense that every part of what we now touch is influenced by AI deeply. What we are tracking with Argon, for example, it’s been a point of inflection. People are using Argon to really go tackle complex projects, including projects which affect millions of lines of code. In the four weeks since we have launched Argon, we have seen a 30% increase in CLs, and more importantly, almost a similar increase—a one-third decrease in rollbacks. People are writing code more productively and better code with it. We are tracking it with newer metrics now. How are you dealing with opposition to data centers? If you can’t build in the U.S. the way you want to, where else do you go? We’re very committed to building our data centers very responsibly. When I look at our largest data centers in some of the communities where we have been the longest, I visit them, I talk to people. There are people who come and tell us their kids have gone to college because of our investments in these communities, and we’ve grown in those communities. To me, this is about doing it right. Engaging with the communities early, doing it transparently. We are committed to making sure we are bringing incremental power, and we cover 100% of the cost of our power needs for these projects. It’s understanding the impact on neighborhoods and making sure you’re working thoroughly to address them. Done rightly, you can continue making progress. But we are constantly taking feedback into account. I do worry not everyone operates the same way. People have been surprised by data centers showing up in their backyard. Those are all important. As an industry, we should continue to do better. But part of the reason, in a 20-year time frame, we are thinking about things like data centers in space is making sure we are able to put these data centers where maybe the trade-offs will be different. What unproven area of AI is Google working hardest to crack? Is it continual learning—getting models to keep updating after release—or something else? There are multiple parallel paths. You saw with Argon we have a million output tokens. With our Gemini models early on, we had a one-million context window on the input side. These are all examples of breakthroughs we are constantly working on. How do you think about synthetic data? How do you think about continual learning? How do you think about more efficient architectures? We do dedicate a meaningful percentage of our compute to these research bets too. It always goes hand in hand, including our world models. Those are all bets we are placing. Sometimes, as part of these bets, there are ideas that emerge which just make their way into the mainline models. Maybe we don’t fully talk about it, but we have multiple steps in these areas. Working in technology requires optimism that building something will improve the world, but those bets can leave real consequences when they fail. I recently returned to a town in El Salvador where enthusiasm for Bitcoin had given way to unfinished construction and something resembling a ghost town. How do you maintain the optimism you spoke about in your Stanford commencement address while accounting for those risks? I genuinely have a deep conviction that improving technology and improving access to technology makes people’s lives better. It’s been my personal experience in my life, out of which comes that deep conviction, optimism. But with that, I’ve always felt humanity’s journey is always about working hard to harness that technology to make it work well for society. The optimism is not an optimism that you just build whatever you want, whenever. You work hard to make sure you’re building technology in the service of humanity, to make the human condition better. That’s got to be the defining goal as we are approaching it. With that framework, I’m very, very optimistic. We are in very early stages of the kind of progress that we are going to see on many areas. We’re all talking about areas like healthcare. A lot of the progress is ahead. The ability to make things in a fundamentally cheaper way on many things where things have been getting expensive for a long, long time, discovering new materials, etc., which really bend the curve—it’s tough to step today and understand the impact of all that, but they’re going to be very profound. I’m very optimistic, but we have to be rightfully concerned about all the ways this technology can go wrong. Sundar, I know you don’t do many of these. Thank you. Thanks, Alex. Appreciate it.

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NFL reportedly will not punish Eagles for their handling of Jalen Hurts' blood clot

Jalen Hurts is expected to miss the 2026 season due to the issue.

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Rays’ Peralta Reacted to Facing Brewers in World Series

Fresh off winning the ALCS MVP award, Tampa Bay Rays ace Freddy Peralta prepares for an emotional World Series against his former team, the Milwaukee Brewers.

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Vanessa Kerry is the new WHO envoy for health resilience. What's on her to-do list?

A respected figure in the world of global health, Dr. Kerry takes on a new responsibility. She says it's challenging but not "daunting."

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Pirates Learn Projected Price Tag for Potential Target Seiya Suzuki

The Pittsburgh Pirates need to add another power bat this offseason.

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Trump uses antisemitic slur to defend GOP Kansas senator

GOP Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall Marshall is locked in an unexpectedly tight reelection battle against Democrat Adam Hamilton in what might be the biggest surprise of the midterms.

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R.I. Democratic Party chair faces calls to resign after spouse indicted on fraud charges

Both the Democratic and Republican nominees for governor call for party chairwoman Liz Beretta-Perik should step down.

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Axena Health Named Finalist for the Digital Health Hub Foundation - Digital Health & AI Awards 2026 at HLTH

NEWTON, Mass., October 20, 2026--Axena Health, Inc. (Axena Health), a women’s health company redefining the standard of care for pelvic health conditions through clinically proven, non-invasive treatments, today announced it has been named a finalist for the Digital Health Hub Foundation – Digital Health & AI Awards 2026 at HLTH. Selected from a pool of more than 1,300 participating companies across all tracks and categories, Axena Health is recognized in the Best in Class Track for Women’s and

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Mice cause ‘imminent health hazard closure’ at Westminster movie theater

AMC Westminster Promenade 24 was reinspected on Monday and allowed to reopen, Jefferson County Public Health records show.

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Oct 20 • 11:39 AM EDT • Health • denverpost.com
State, local leaders break ground on Bibb County Health Science Academy

The Bibb County Health Science Academy is expected to open in fall 2028.

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State, local leaders break ground on Bibb County Health Science Academy

The Bibb County Health Science Academy is expected to open in fall 2028.

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Jauan Jennings Trade: Raiders, Vikings Connected In Rumor

Jauan Jennings has not lived up to expectations with the Minnesota Vikings, and the team could part ways with the veteran receiver before the trade deadline. A seventh-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, the Tennessee product spent his early years in a supporting role before earning more snaps later in his career. He first …

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Utah DCC to Help Lead Data and Analytics for National Study of Childhood Viral Infections

The DCC will integrate information collected by a consortium to study why viral respiratory infections affect children differently.

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Oct 20 • 11:00 AM EDT • Health • healthcare.utah.edu
York County Mexican restaurant fails state health inspection

The state Department of Agriculture conducts annual inspections of food-serving businesses to ensure public safety and safe food-handling practices. Schools are inspected twice per year, according to the Bureau of Food Safety and Laboratories.

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Oct 20 • 10:35 AM EDT • Health • centredaily.com
Richard Riehle, prolific character actor from 'Office Space' and 'Bridesmaids,' dies at 78

LOS ANGELES — Richard Riehle, a prolific character actor who portrayed Tom Smykowski, the product manager with "people skills" in Mike Judge's cult classic, "Office Space," has died. He was

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Oct 20 • 10:32 AM EDT • Entertainment • thederrick.com
Republic Business Credit Provides $15 Million Factoring Facility to Temporary Staffing Agency

Republic Business Credit has provided a $15 million factoring facility to an established Midwestern staffing agency. The funding delivers essential working capital to support daily operations, resolve an unexpected liability, and position the Company to execute its long-term growth plans.

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Oct 20 • 10:00 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
John Turturro, thief of New York characters, adds a capstone in 'The Last Pickpocket in New York'

John Turturro grew up in Hollis, Queens, and has lived in Park Slope, Brooklyn, since 1988

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Oct 20 • 9:58 AM EDT • Entertainment • washingtonpost.com
T-shirts and silver balls: Politics get mixed in with the profane at a Trump store

By Elle Reeve, Samantha Guff, Frank Fenimore, CNN Boones Mill, Virginia (CNN) — Walk into Trump Town USA in Boones Mill, Virginia, and you may marvel at the breadth of human creativity, as long as you’re not distracted by how the merchandise tackles some of the most controversial political issues in the most vulgar way

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Oct 20 • 9:05 AM EDT • Politics • kvia.com